New Site Is a Public Collection of Building Research

摘要

A new website formed by two buildings organizations aims to be a bank of peer-reviewed research projects and case studies that dive into every phase of the building cycle, from pre-design through occupancy and re-use. "I believe that it has the potential to be transformative in our industry," says A. Ray Pentecost III, chairman of the board of direction for the new site: BRIKbase.org. BRIK stands for "Building Research Information Knowledgebase" and was formed by the American Institute of Architects and the National Institute of Building Sciences. By crowd-sourcing its data, BRIK hopes to become the go-to aggregator for research and studies about building.